Children's Speech and Language Services provides a full range of speech and language services including:

• Articulation Assessments
• Comprehensive Speech and Language Evaluations
• Individual and Small Group Treatment
• Social Communication Groups
• Home or School Visits (when appropriate)
• Consultation to hospitals, schools, early intervention programs, preschools and parent groups

Therapy is typically delivered in an intimate, one-on-one setting by our professional clinicians. Group therapy sessions are also offered at different times of the year to enhance social communication.

Groups & Dyads

CSLS offers ongoing groups to address language and social skills. Children are carefully matched with a peer or group of peers, according to diagnosis, level of language and/or social difficulties, and age, in order to ensure optimal progress. Throughout the school year, we offer dyads and small groupings, with one or two clinicians. More intensive and larger groupings are offered during the summer months. Please contact CSLS for more information.

CSLS is an exclusively pediatric practice dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of communication and feeding, from infancy through adolescence. Our staff includes specialists in all major disorders. We believe that by supporting our clinicians, we achieve the best results for children. We also believe that when we respect a family's philosophy, culture and routine, we achieve optimal results with their children.

At CSLS we are very proud of our clinicians.

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  Randi Loeb
  MS, CCC

  Co-founder and Director

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  Rita Williams
  MS, CCC

  Co-founder and Director

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  Lorella Franchina

  Office Administrator

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  Brooke Collier
  MS, CCC

  Clinic Supervisor

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  Claire Bigley
  MS, CCC

  Clinic Supervisor

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  Margeaux Ivins
  MS, CCC

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  Beth Arinsburg
  MS, CCC

• 

  Emily Russo
  MS, CCC

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  Ricki Feldman
  MS, CCC

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  Ellen Gellineau
  MS, CCC

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  Carrie Kerstein
  MS, CCC

One-Year Olds

• Understand and participate in routines such as pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo
• Make a variety of sounds
• Say "mama," "dada" and several other words

Two-Year Olds

• Can say at least 50 words
• Put two words together
• Use words to communicate their needs
• Understand names of familiar people and objects, simple verbs and adjectives

Three-Year Olds

• Can relate a simple story or event
• Use three to four word sentences with simple grammar
• Can be understood by most adults

Preschoolers

• Usually produce grammatically correct sentences
• Begin to use complex sentences
• Start to talk about past and future events
• Are able to follow classroom instructions

School-Age Children

• Begin to use humor and non-literal language
• Tell stories that contain a logical sequence of events
• Play with/reflect on language (for example: rhyming, antonyms, synonyms, multiple meanings)

Links

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Asperger/Autism Network (AANE)
• Social Thinking
• Apraxia Kids
• The Stuttering Foundation
• Lurie Center for Autism
• The Hanen Centre
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• Selective Mutism Group ~ Childhood Anxiety Network
• Selective Mutism Foundation
• The F.U.S.E. Program
• The Thayer Lindsley Hearing Impaired Program
• Kids with Tubes
• The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation
• Mealtime Notions
• Understood

Documents & Forms

The following documents are available for you to download.

• Privacy Policy
• Acknowledgement of Privacy Policy
• Authorization for Release of Information
• Child History Form